Once again, Vanity Fair teamed up with Instagram and Mark Seliger to bring the stunning portraits of celebrities in their best dress at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Step inside and take a look of the Mark Seliger portrait photography work, where celebrities from Sylvester Stallone and Kate Hudson to Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton took a breather from the party and posed in a room designed by Carol’s set designer, Judy Becker.

Here’s a look at some of the world’s most photographed landmarks, vistas and views. If you’d like to shoot breathtaking panoramas, awe-inspiring natural wonders and captivating people we know where to find them.

Pigeons photography

Pigeons and doves constitute the bird clade Columbidae, that includes some 310 species. They are stout-bodied birds with short necks, and have short, slender bills with fleshyceres. Doves feed on seeds, fruits, and plants. This family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones.

In general, the terms “dove” and “pigeon” are used somewhat interchangeably. In ornithological practice, “dove” tends to be used for smaller species and “pigeon” for larger ones, but this is in no way consistently applied, and historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation between the terms. The species most commonly referred to as “pigeon” is the Feral Rock Pigeon, common in many cities.

Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests from sticks and other debris, which may be placed in trees, on ledges, or on the ground, depending on species. They lay one or two eggs, and both parents care for the young, which leave the nest after seven to 28 days. Unlike most birds, both sexes of doves and pigeons produce “crop milk” to feed to their young, secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop. Young doves and pigeons are called “squabs”.

Sunlight photography

Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total frequency spectrum of electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, particularly infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere, and is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon.

When the direct solar radiation is not blocked by clouds, it is experienced as sunshine, a combination of bright light and radiant heat. When it is blocked by the clouds or reflects off other objects, it is experienced as diffused light.

The World Meteorological Organization uses the term “sunshine duration” to mean the cumulative time during which an area receives direct irradiance from the Sun of at least 120 watts per square meter.

Sunlight may be recorded using a sunshine recorder, pyranometer or pyrheliometer.

Sunlight takes about 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth. On average, it takes energy between 10,000 and 170,000 years to leave the sun’s interior and then be emitted from the surface as light.

Direct sunlight has a luminous efficacy of about 93 lumens per watt of radiant flux. Bright sunlight provides illuminance of approximately 100,000 lux or lumens per square meter at the Earth’s surface. Sunlight’s composition at ground level, per square meter, with the sun at the zenith, is about 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation. At the top of the atmosphere sunlight is about 30% more intense with more than three times the fraction of ultraviolet (UV), with most of the extra UV consisting of biologically-damaging shortwave ultraviolet.

Sunlight is a key factor in photosynthesis, a process vital for many living beings on Earth.

Discover The Long Room. This library belongs to the Trinity College, in Dublin and it’s the largest library in Ireland. It was built between 1712 and 1732, and featured a long hall of 65 meters and more than 200 000 rare books.

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Biography

I am Muriel Debernard. I live and work in France. I have made my first experience in art school where I learnt silver picture and story of photography. During this period my camera was a Nikon F301.
I do not have any subject that I prefer. I am interesting in all kind of pictures (urban, landscape, people). I try to be more than an observer being invested in what I photograph. My work is instinctive. In one picture, I try to give a feeling, the beauty of a situation, a mood. The light inspires me; it is the triggering factor in most of my pictures that I have taken.
The composition is another key factors to strengthen my point of view. I use equally the colour or the black and white; it depends on the meaning of what it gives to the pictures.
For me taking pictures is learning to look around himself. The moment makes the picture; we are just a witness of what happened. Taking a picture is just maybe the act of giving.

Shells photography

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea. The shell is part of the body of the animal. Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches by beachcombers. The shells are empty because the animal has died and the soft parts have been eaten by another animal or have rotted out.

The term seashell usually refers to the exoskeleton of an invertebrate (an animal without a backbone). Most shells that are found on beaches are the shells of marine mollusks, partly because many of these shells endure better than other seashells.

Apart from mollusk shells, other shells that can be found on beaches are those of barnacles, horseshoe crabs and brachiopods. Marine annelid worms in the family Serpulidae create shells made of calcareous tubes cemented onto other surfaces. The shells of sea urchins are called tests, and the moulted shells of crabs and lobsters are called exuviae. While most seashells are external, somecephalopods have internal shells.

Seashells have been used by humans for many different purposes throughout history and pre-history. However, seashells are not the only kind of shells; in various habitats it is possible to find shells from freshwater animals such as freshwater mussels and freshwater snails, and it is also possible to find the shells of land snails.

Director and photographer Paul Giggle got busy shooting the pictures of the 2016 calendar of 12 Natural Wonders. The theme of this year is focused on Russian classical dancers portraits, captured in Moscow. Through these portraits, he manages to show the grace and elegance of these ballerinas.

Do you ever wonder what kinds of cameras we are using to take photos of our children or capture them playing sports, or even to take pictures of our food? Here’s what types of cameras Americans are using to capture digital images.

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Biography

I am a story teller. I am a dream interpreter. I am a clown in the circus of the dreams. My photographs are my words for my emotions. I don’t know the other language to translate how I feel. I am an observer. Observe to nature, observe the cities, observe to people. I love to breath with the same pace with nature, live the seconds with cities and write underline words for the people when they talk. For me, each photo I take is a part of the story I would like to tell to people, which we find the same ground to share feelings. I know that my photos can explain lots of things where the words are unnecessary. For me photography is the way to connect to people, to cities and a love letter to nature…
My works has been appeared in Lonely Planet, various photography magazines in UK, Turkey and each time I realized that I need to know more. Because at the end of the day, when I press the shutter button, I know that I freeze the time in that moment, so it should be better good.

as I said, I am a story teller, to tell stories about people, cities and nature…

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Boudoir photography

The term “boudoir” may also be ascribed to a genre of photography. Boudoir photography is not generally a new concept and numerous examples including ones of Kathleen Meyers, Clara Bow, Mae West and Jean Harlow photographed in a boudoir style.

Typically shot in a photographer’s studio or luxury hotel suites, it has become fashionable to create a set of sensual or sexually suggestive images of women (and occasionally men and couples) in “boudoir style”. The most common manifestation of contemporary boudoir photography is to take variations of candid and posed photographs of the subject partly clothed or in lingerie. Nudity is more often implied than explicit. Commercially the genre is often (though not exclusively) derived from a market for brides to surprise their future husbands by gifting the images on or before their wedding day. Other motivations or inspiration for boudoir photography shoots include anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, weight loss regimes, maternity, other form of body change or alteration (such as breast augmentation or reduction) and for servicemen and women overseas.

Boudoir photography may, in some cases, be distinguished from other photography genres such as glamour photography, fine art nude photography and erotic photography. According to research carried out in Digital Boudoir Photography (2006), John G. Blair said that the word “Boudoir” or “Boudoir portrait”, was used in 1980 by Motherlode Photography Studio in California to describe a picture more elegant than “erotic portrait” or “semi nude portrait”.

Perhaps the 2 most important ‘ingredients’ in photography are light and composition, and it is the latter element that I want to talk about in this article. Specifically I’m going to talk about some straightforward ways to improve the way you ‘compose’ your images.

1. The Rule of Thirds– this is a well-known concept in photographic and artistic composition. Essentially, when you look through your camera’s viewfinder you should visualize a ‘grid’ that is divided into three equally spaced horizontal as well as vertical lines. The idea is that you should place your ‘subject’ at one of the points where a vertical and horizontal line intersects. This should lead to a more dynamic and interesting composition, and one where the viewer’s eye can flow through the frame more effectively. Have a play around with this technique and see whether you like the effect it has on your work- some camera’s have a feature that superimposes the rule of thirds grid onto your viewfinder itself!

2. Study the Greats- one of the best ways to improve your work is to constantly study the work of the great artists and photographers. Try to deconstruct their compositions, and ask yourself how the composition helps to convey the meaning of each image. You may want to try out some of the approaches and techniques you study in your own work. Just try lots of different things out to see what works for you!

3. What is your subject and context? – whenever I take a photograph I try to define in my own mind what the subject and context of the image are. By subject I mean the main focal point of the image; that part of the image that you want to emphasise. The context, by comparison, plays more of a supporting role, and helps to ‘bring out’ the underlying meaning of the subject. For instance, I may decide to focus my camera on a brightly coloured bird. I may further decide to select a plain, light coloured background (or context) to further boost and emphasise the strength of those bold colours.

4. Change your perspective- If you find that your initial attempt at composing an image isn’t working then try changing your perspective. You may find that by taking a higher vantage point, or by moving to a different angle, you improve your image. Don’t just settle for the very first ‘frame’you find. Move around, experiment, and be creative.

My final tip (and a little bonus for you) is to try and simplify your images. Often the strongest images are the ones that are simplest. If your image isn’t working you may find it gets stronger when you eliminate 1 or 2 elements in the frame.

I wish you the best of luck with your photography. Just remember to keep experimenting, and most importantly of all, have fun!

Protecting Photos Posted Online from Theft

With the increased popularity of social networking websites like Facebook,Twitter,Google Plus and Image sharing websites like Picasa, Flickr etc. It has become very common for photographers to post their digital images online.

But this has highly increased the risk of image theft and unauthorized use of their images. People may copy your image and use it claiming as their own on their websites without giving you credit for your work. I have seen many photographers complaining about the same on many forums and blogs. They needed to issue take down notice(DMCA) to get their image removed from the website which has put it up without proper permission, in many cases this was also not possible.

So you might be thinking what is the best way to protect your digital images. The best and time tested way to ensure that the copyright of your digital images is preserved is through visible watermarking.

A watermark is a Translucent Line of Text / Logo that is placed on your Images to represent the owner of the photograph it can be your name, your company name or your Logo. The watermark ensures that the ownership of your image is stated explicitly and by displaying your company/website logo or line of text with your name as watermark.

This discourages most photo theft. If you are a photographer who posts your images freely on the web, then the watermark can serve as a means of improving your popularity.

You can watermark Photos with Image editing Tools like Photoshop but But watermarking Images individually is a tiresome process. You need to set the layer properties and much do more to configure your watermark to meet the desired specifications, It can take a lot of time doing this individually for images. There are powerful and fully automated image watermarking software like Mass Watermark that can watermark 100s of images within minutes all you need to do is a few mouse clicks.

Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster is an electric guitar. Designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares in 1954, it has been manufactured continuously by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to the present. It is a double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top horn for balance. Along with the Gibson Les Paul, it is one of the most popularly copied electric guitar shapes. “Stratocaster” and “Strat” are trademark terms belonging to Fender.

Originally the Stratocaster was offered in a 2-color sunburst finish on a solid, deeply contoured ash body, a 21-fret one-piece maple neck with black dot inlays and Kluson tuning heads. In 1956 Fender began issuing solid Stratocasters with alder bodies. In 1960 the available custom colors were standardized, many of which were automobile lacquer colors from DuPont available at an additional 5% cost. The unique single-ply, 8-screw hole white pickguard allowed all electronic components—except the recessed jack plate—to be attached to it for easy assembly. Despite subsequent Stratocaster models (including copies) vintage Fender models are highly valued by collectors for their investment potential and players who prefer the timbre of older models.

Stratocasters have been used in many genres, including country (the genre Leo Fender intended for), rock, pop,soul, rhythm and blues, blues, and jazz.

Power plant photography

A power station (also referred to as a generating station, power plant, powerhouse or generating plant) is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. At the center of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical power into electrical power by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator varies widely. It depends chiefly on which fuels are easily available, cheap enough and on the types of technology that the power company has access to. Most power stations in the world burn fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas to generate electricity, and some use nuclear power, but there is an increasing use of cleaner renewable sources such as solar,wind, wave and hydroelectric. Central power stations produce AC power, after a brief Battle of Currents in the 19th century demonstrated the advantages of AC distribution.

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Kodachrome Film

Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. Because of its complex processing requirements, the film was sold process-paid in the United States until 1954 when a legal ruling prohibited this. Elsewhere, this arrangement continued. Kodachrome was the subject of a Paul Simon song and a US state park was named after it. For many years it was used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in print media. Because of the uptake of alternative photographic materials, its complex processing requirements, and the widespread transition to digital photography, Kodachrome lost its market share, its manufacturing was discontinued in 2009 and its processing ended in 2010.(Wikipedia)

Blue eyes photography

Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic character determined by 2 distinct factors: the pigmentation of the eye’s iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.
In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of melanin in theiris pigment epithelium (located on the back of the iris), the melanin content within the iris stroma (located at the front of the iris), and the cellular density of the stroma.

The appearance of blue, green, as well as hazel eyes results from the Rayleigh scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to that which accounts for the blueness of the sky.

There is no blue pigmentation either in the iris or in the ocular fluid. Dissection reveals that the iris pigment epithelium is brownish black due to the presence of melanin. Unlike brown eyes, blue eyes have low concentrations of melanin in the stroma of the iris, which lies in front of the dark epithelium. Longer wavelengths of light tend to be absorbed by the dark underlying epithelium, while shorter wavelengths are reflected and undergo Rayleigh scattering in the turbid medium of the stroma.

This is the same frequency-dependence of scattering that accounts for the blue appearance of the sky. The result is a “Tyndall blue” structural color that varies with external lighting conditions.

Blue photos

Blue is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. On the optical spectrum, blue is located between violet and green.

Blue and the Impressionist painters

The invention of new synthetic pigments in the 18th and 19th centuries considerably brightened and expanded the palette of painters. J.M.W. Turner experimented with the new cobalt blue, and of the twenty colours most used by the Impressionists, twelve were new and synthetic colours, including cobalt blue, ultramarine and cerulean blue.

Another important influence on painting in the 19th century was the theory of complementary colours, developed by the French chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul in 1828 and published in 1839. He demonstrated that placing complementary colours, such as blue and yellow-orange or ultramarine and yellow, next to each other heightened the intensity of each colour “to the apogee of their tonality.” In 1879 an American physicist, Ogden Rood, published a book charting the complementary colours of each colour in the spectrum. This principle of painting was used by Claude Monet in his Impression – Sunrise – Fog (1872), where he put a vivid blue next to a bright orange sun, (1872) and in Régate à Argenteuil (1872), where he painted an orange sun against blue water. The colours brighten each other. Renoir used the same contrast of cobalt blue water and an orange sun in Canotage sur la Seine (1879–1880). Both Monet and Renoir liked to use pure colours, without any blending.

Monet and the impressionists were among the first to observe that shadows were full of colour. In his La Gare Saint-Lazare, the grey smoke, vapour and dark shadows are actually composed of mixtures of bright pigment, including cobalt blue, cerulean blue, synthetic ultramarine, emerald green, Guillet green, chrome yellow, vermilion and ecarlate red. Blue was a favorite colour of the impressionist painters, who used it not just to depict nature but to create moods, feelings and atmospheres. Cobalt blue, a pigment of cobalt oxide-aluminium oxide, was a favourite of Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. It was similar to smalt, a pigment used for centuries to make blue glass, but it was much improved by the French chemist Louis Jacques Thénard, who introduced it in 1802. It was very stable but extremely expensive. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “‘Cobalt is a divine colour and there is nothing so beautiful for putting atmosphere around things…”

Van Gogh described to his brother Theo how he composed a sky: “The dark blue sky is spotted with clouds of an even darker blue than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a lighter blue, like the bluish white of the Milky Way….the sea was very dark ultramarine, the shore a sort of violet and of light red as I see it, and on the dunes, a few bushes of prussian blue.”

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JOSSPEIX PHOTOGRAPHY

My name is Joss, I am 43 years old and I live in Paris. Early, I was inspired by humanist photographers of the 20th century and the black and white street photography. I started photography in 1988, with a Minolta Dynax 5xi film camera.

First of all, I like to photograph people in the street, outside, with a human approach. I always work with my feelings, waiting for the decisive moment. For me photography means to transmit emotions and a testimony through the ages.

I take most of my pictures with both my Nikon D7000 DSRL and a Fujifilm X20 compact expert now. Even if I am a street photographer first, I also like urban, infrared, long exposure and portrait photography. But my goal is always the same, to stop the time, to capture and to transmit emotions. There is one thing that always comes to my mind when I take a photo: to take a photo is to love people, life and earth !

With the availability of affordable digital cameras in the market, many people are delving into photography. It is now easier than ever for anyone to share photos with family and friends through social media sites, or to take, print and frame their own photos. However, there are a few tips for the beginning photographer that will allow them to take professional looking photos with even a simple digital camera.

1. Basic Composition

The position of different elements in the picture frame, known as the picture composition, is the heart of any photo. Professional photographers learn what is known as the Rule of Thirds, which has the photographer dividing the frame into nine equal squares, with two horizontal and two vertical lines running through the picture. Attempt to place the subjects in the picture along those lines, imagining the image divided among the nine squares. By using the Rule of Thirds, pictures are more dramatic than simply placing a subject in the center of the lens. Some newer digital cameras have a Rule of Thirds overlay that can be activated while taking the picture.

2. Adjust Exposure Compensation

Most digital camera users allow the camera to make decisions regarding the exposure, or lightness and darkness, of a shot. Basing exposure on an 18-percent gray card, the camera looks at the scene and determines what the appropriate exposure is for that shot. Many digital cameras have special scene modes for snow because most cameras will try to turn white snow gray. Most modern point-and-shoot cameras have a button that will allow you to slightly adjust exposure, and that button is usually identified with a +/- symbol, with a default setting at zero. If the exposure is too dark, move the scale above zero, and if it is too dark, move the scale down below zero, until you achieve the exposure you want.

3. Mode Selection

Digital cameras often have multiple modes for shooting that range from fully automatic to specific scene modes. Smaller point and shoot cameras have specific modes for shooting sports, low-light, landscape, twilight or other settings that cater to certain typical activities. Advanced cameras offer additional settings, including shutter priority (S Mode) that increases the speed at which a photo is taken. An S Mode of 1/125 second or faster helps freeze the action. Shooting in lower light, choose the Aperture (A Mode) to be sure enough light enters the lens.

4. White Balance

Cameras try to set white balance based on the type of lighting in which you are shooting. Usually, the camera will automatically detect and adjust the white balance so that the photo looks natural, but if you are shooting in mixed lighting, or the camera is having difficulty choosing the right lighting, many cameras allow you to set the white balance manually. D-SLRs often have a button dedicated to white balance, labeled “WB” while on smaller point-and-shoot cameras you may have to search through the shooting menu. Although color correction is possible later through iPhoto or Picasso, photos have a better look if the white balance is correct from the beginning.

5. Importance of Lighting

Be aware of where the lighting is in the photo before you shoot. When shooting pictures outside, be sure that the sun is not at the back of the subject. However, in times when you must shoot a photo with the sun at the back of the subject, manually activate the flash to fill in shadows.

6. Be Aware of the Flash

If people appear bleached out in photos, you may be too close when you take them with a flash. Back up from the subject if you must use the flash on the camera, and zoom in to frame the picture properly. If the photo is too bright or too dark, see if your camera allows for flash compensation, an adjustment that allows you to change the power of the flash, giving your photo better balance. Add more light to fill in shadows and make the photo more natural looking.

7. Try Adding a Flash Diffuser

If your camera does not allow you to lower the flash power, try using a simple flash diffuser. If you are using a small point-and-shoot camera, tape a small piece of wax paper over the flash to soften it. D-SLR users can use an old milky white 35mm film canister that is cut to fit snugly over the flash. Diffusers are also available for purchase if you want a more professional look.

8. Tripods and Monopods

Tripods allow you the extra time you need to set up framing, keep the camera steady, and take the family shot at the amusement park with the entire group in the photo. Many department stores carry inexpensive tripods, but for those with higher-end cameras, or with heavy lenses, choose a tripod that can handle the weight of the camera. A monopod, which is simply a tripod with one leg, is designed to fit between your legs to add stability, and is often less difficult to set up and take down than a tripod.

9. Upload Selectively

Digital cameras make it easy to take hundreds of photos quickly, but be selective when uploading them to social media or sending to family members via email. Post a few dozen great photos rather than hundreds of not-so-good ones.

10. Edit as Necessary

Although getting the photo right in the camera is the ultimate goal, using iPhoto or Picasso to edit photos later is perfectly acceptable. Editing software allows you to crop, correct color, fix exposure problems, remove red-eye and other editing tasks which can improve the quality of a photo tremendously.

These tips can help even the newest photographer take great pictures. Whether you are using a simple, point-and-shoot or an elaborate digital with multiple lenses, following these suggestions will provide you with quality photos you will be glad to share with family and friends.

“Agua” storm-proof camera and drone bags set a whole new standard for adventure photography!

One year after the launch of Pictar – the revolutionary iPhone camera grip, miggo returns to Indiegogo with “Agua” – a brand new collection of three storm-proof bags designed for DSLR cameras and the super-popular Mavic and Spark drones. Every new offer by miggo is a sensation, with its fun and exciting products for photography enthusiasts.

“Crowdfunding arena is the place where we bring products to life”, says Guy Sprukt, Marketing Manager and one of miggo’s founders. “This is where we introduced our first Agua camera bag two years ago, and this year we are proud to present not one but three new Agua bags! The entire new line is IPX3 standard storm-proof and the bags offer an exceptional combination of protection from the elements and quick-draw ability. We had a long development stage, and we’re proud of the results and we believe that the new agua bags offer a completely different approach to carrying photographic gear and drones.”

The agua series consists of 3 bags – all of which are IPX3-standard storm-proof and carefully designed from durable tarpaulin with an impressive matt finish – unique to the entire miggo agua collection.

Agua Versa Backpack

A versatile backpack for carrying professional photographic gear, as well as for daily use. The bag lets users enjoy a handy and carefully designed everyday bag, while the photographic gear is safely stored in a “doc-bag” insert. With the insert firmly in place, the Versa turns into a tough photo bag for any challenging task.

The Versa Backpack provides fast and easy access to the camera and additional gear, excellent weather protection, a versatile back system with 3 different carrying modes (backpack, sling and X-position), a retractable insert for photographic gear, external charging system for mobile phone, a designated pocket for a laptop or iPad and three water-proof outer pockets for personal stuff. Versa Backpack is made from durable tarpaulin with a matt finish, and offers a rigid bottom made with thermoforming technology for superior impact protection. The agua Versa Backpack can carry a full-format DSLR such as Canon 5D Mark 4 (or similar), 2 professional lenses including 70-200 f2.8, and flash. Like all the bags in the agua series, the Versa Backpack is IPX3-standard storm-proof.

Agua Drone Lander

Extreme enthusiasts will be delighted to know that they can now own a revolutionary carrier for Mavic or Spark drones, which offers easy carrying and excellent protection from weather and impact.

Agua Drone Lander lets users carry their easily on their back to the most challenging places in the world or just for a weekend trip with the family. The sensitive gear is fully protected thanks to a specially padded three-layer insert with a dedicated space for the drone and all its accessories. The bag also comes with an integral landing mat, which doubles as a work station. The Agua Drone Lander is made from durable tarpaulin with a matt finish that wraps around the padded insert and serves as an additional layer of protection from the elements such as rain, snow, dust or dirt. The agua Drone Lander is equipped with a main padded strap for carrying in the “sling” position, and a diagonal strap to keep the bag tight against the body for easy long-distance carrying. Like all the bags in the agua series, the Drone Lander is IPX3-standard storm-proof.

The Agua Sling offers a compact design with surprising storage capability. It can carry a full-format DSLR camera such as Canon 5D Mark 4 (or similar), three professional lenses including 70-200 f2.8, and flash.

A wide, padded strap allows easy carrying and quick access to the gear through a side opening. Agua Sling is made from durable tarpaulin with a matt finish and offers a rigid bottom made with thermoforming technology for superior impact protection. It also features a water-proof front pocket for personal stuff, an external and convenient charging port for mobile phones and a dedicated laptop pocket. Like all the bags in the agua series, the Sling is IPX3-standard storm-proof.

“In July 2017, we’ll be returning to Indiegogo with our fourth crowdfunding campaign, and we’re looking forward to hearty support and backing “, says Rafi David, miggo’s CEO. “Indiegogo is an amazing platform that enables young companies like us to bring innovative products to the market, to receive feedback from consumers at a stage where changes can still be made and thus offer the products that are most suitable for our users.”

Miggo was founded 2013 by a group of designers with extensive experience in developing award-winning camera cases and bags, as well as a passion for bringing to market innovative concepts for carrying and supporting cameras. In just four years, miggo expanded its portfolio to include patented game-changing camera carriers, multi-functional camera and binocular straps and innovative compact tripods. These products are successfully marketed in over 30 countries around the world. With Pictar, the company’s new state-of-the-art camera-grip, miggo gives users the ability to truly unleash the power of their iPhone camera and take their mobile photography to a completely new level.This year, miggo returns to classic photography with its new line of agua bags, offering for the first time a game-changing product not only for photographers but also for the emerging young and exciting area of drone photography.

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood’s Golden Age. She has since been ranked as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and been placed in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskellbefore moving to London in 1948 to continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions.

After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). Later performing in successful films like Sabrina (1954), The Nun’s Story (1959),Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and accrued a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

She appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. Although contributing to the organisation since 1954, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as aUNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in late 1992, but a month later, aged 63, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland in early 1993.

Welcome to ExpertPhotography’s top 100 photography tips brought together in one place, for your ease. These tips are extracts from a variety of to the tutorials, where you’ll find much more information, to help you improve your photography.

If you’re looking for a way to compose an interesting photograph, one option is to compose a shot that will use lines to form a vanishing point. Two parallel straight lines, such as the sides or a road, give the appearance of vanishing at a point of infinite distance. These types of vanishing points can be creating by any number of subjects, but often times it is roads, tunnels, bridges, or lines that are found in nature. Lines, patterns, and angles when composed properly can result in intriguing photos that draw the viewer in and direct attention.

This type of approach is one that you can use in your own photography quite often. By looking for parallel lines in things like buildings, roads, and other objects you can make use of vanishing points and perspective to create intriguing compositions.

Here you’ll find 10 excellent examples from various photographers that demonstrate how to compose shots with vanishing points. You can use these examples as inspiration for your own photography and start to make more of an effort to apply these principles.

Intimate Photos

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate sex and attachment, or sexual activity. The term is also sometimes used euphemistically for a sexual relationship. Intimate relationships play a central role in the overall human experience. Humans have a general desire to belong and to love which is usually satisfied within an intimate relationship. Intimate relationships involve physical and sexual attraction between people, liking and loving, romantic feelings and sexual relationships, as well as the seeking of one or more mates and emotional and personal support for the members. Intimate relationships provide a social network for people that provide strong emotional attachments, and fulfill our universal need of belonging and the need to be cared for.

Intimacy generally refers to the feeling of being in a close personal association and belonging together. It is a familiar and very close affective connection with another as a result of a bond that is formed through knowledge and experience of the other. Genuine intimacy in human relationships requires dialogue, transparency, vulnerability and reciprocity. The verb “intimate” means “to state or make known”. The activity of intimating (making known) underpins the meanings of “intimate” when used as a noun and adjective. The noun “intimate” means a person with whom one has a particularly close relationship. This was clarified by Dalton (1959) who discusses how anthropologists and ethnographic researchers access “inside information” from within a particular cultural setting by establishing networks of intimates capable (and willing) to provide information unobtainable through formal channels. The adjective, “intimate” indicates detailed knowledge of a thing or person (e.g., “an intimate knowledge of engineering” and “an intimate relationship between two people”).

Old man portraits

Old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle.Euphemisms and terms for old people include seniors (American usage), senior citizens (British and American usage), older adults (in the social sciences), the elderly, and elders (in many cultures including the cultures of aboriginal people).

Old people often have limited regenerative abilities and are more prone to disease, syndromes, and sickness than younger adults. For the biology of ageing, see senescence. The medical study of the aging process is gerontology, and the study of diseases that afflict the elderly is geriatrics.

The boundary between middle age and old age cannot be defined exactly because it does not have the same meaning in all societies. People can be considered old because of certain changes in their activities or social roles. Examples: people may be considered old when they become grandparents, or when they begin to do less or different work—retirement. Traditionally, the age of 60 was generally seen as the beginning of old age. Most developed world countries have accepted the chronological age of 65 years as a definition of ‘elderly’ or older person.

The American astronaut Scott Kelly, with Russian astronaut Mikhaïl Kornienko, came back on Earth after his mission. During the whole year he spent in the cosmos, he captured fantastic pictures of our galaxy and Earth.

Umbrella

An umbrella or parasol (also called a brolly, parapluie, rainshade, sunshade, gamp, bumbershoot, or umbrolly) is a canopy designed to protect against rain or sunlight. The wordparasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun; umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain. Often the difference is the material; some parasols are not waterproof. Parasols are often meant to be fixed to one point and often used with patio tables or other outdoor furniture. Umbrellas are almost exclusively hand-held portable devices; however, parasols can also be hand-held. The collapsible (or folding) umbrella originated from China, and had sliding levers similar to those in use of today.

The word umbrella comes from the Latin word umbra, meaning shade or shadow (the Latin word, in turn, derives from the Ancient Greek ómbros .) Brolly is a slang word for umbrella, used often in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. Bumbershoot is a fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century.

Red

Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and strawberries. Next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum of light, red is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism and communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness.

Take advantage of natural light to get great outdoor pictures. The 30 minutes before and after dusk and dawn offer premium natural light with which to take amazing shots. Check out this infographic to learn more about improving your photography skills.

Discover Camila Craig photography work. Feel free to contact us if you want to be featured too !

Biography

Camila Craig was born in Brazil and lived in Peru for more than 10 years. She is a 16-year-old American photographer, and at her young age already has a photographic exhibition: “Dentro de Mi”.

In this set of pictures she portraits the soul of her brother with autism, with the intention of raising awareness in this subject. For more than a year this collection has traveled around Peru and has been exhibited in the most important showrooms in Lima (the capital).

Her knowledge of various languages has taken her from America to Europe in a cultural exchange to France, which helped her to spread the word about her work and gain a more wide vision of the world that surrounds her.
Currently, Camila is finishing her studies in High School and preparing herself to pursue a career in Liberal Arts and Photography.

Discover John Meehan photography work. Feel free to contact us if you want to be featured too !

Biography

John Meehan is a photographer based in Liverpool (UK). Specialising in street/travel/ portrait photography he is particularly known for his work from SE Asia. John is the founder and co-ordinator of f50 Collective (http://f50collective.com/). You can see more of John’s work at his web site and follow him on Twitter @JohnMeehan61.

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An Indian train journey

I have told the story of my recent truncated trip to India elsewhere (see). Presented here are a selection of photographs made on an excursion to Jaisalmer on the Pakistan/India border during that trip.

In late June 2015, I travelled the 770km from New Delhi to Jaisalmer on the appropriately named New Delhi-Jaisalmer Express. With a mere 36 stops along the way, we knew our 19 hour journey was going to be an adventure. We weren’t disappointed!

Our destination, Jaisalmer, is known as “the Golden City” and was founded in 1156 AD. It is located in the “Desert State” of Rajasthan in the north west of India. Consequently, the terrain we covered was dry and stony for the most part and not attractive at all.

What made the journey so much fun was the people we met along the way. Talkative, warm, inquisitive, and prone to laughing the Indian people left a strong impression on us. They were more than happy to be photographed which was a bonus.

These images were taken as I hopped on and off the train at the frequent stops or from the moving train as we passed locals living along the tracks. ‘Gun and run’ isn’t my natural way of working but it was really great fun and necessary in the circumstances.

Discover Krisztian Sipos photography work. Feel free to contact us if you want to be featured too !

Biography

I am Hungarian born photographer, based in London where I bought my first camera and started to learn photography from 2008.

The love of music and art I have a huge interest in any type of photography, finding the art behind it. After many years in photography I find myself to enjoy the most of studio photography, photographing people and products.

I study light and I always keen to find new ways to produce something different. In my spare time I work on conceptual and composite work. Choosing this path, it gives me a way to improve my photo manipulation skills using Photoshop and use my artistic side.

My new series called the Extraordinary engagement and couple photography.
Member of SWPP: Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers

Five Places to take Stunning Outdoor Photos in Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. The city of Paris, within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), has a population of about 2,200,000. Its metropolitan area is one of the largest population centres in Europe, with more than 12 million inhabitants.

An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris had become, by the 12th century, one of Europe’s foremost centres of learning and the arts and the largest city in the Western world until the 18th century. Paris is today one of the world’s leading business and cultural centres and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities.

1. The Eiffel Tower

When you think about Paris, you think about the Eiffel Tower, the “place to be” for a tourist and a tourist photographer! (yes i know, all the tourists are photographers!)

By the way, the Trocadero and the Champs de Mars are fantastic places for photography.

I suggest you to start your photowalk at Palais de Chaillot. Here you can shot the Eiffel Tower as a landscape, make great street photos and cross the Seine to shoot “la grande dame” with a fantastic angle!

2. Palais Royal Garden

The Palais-Royal is a palace and garden located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Near the Louvre and the Tuileries, take the time to visit this small and historic garden. It’s really a nice place !

You will have to be as imaginative as possible for photography here. The great perspective is hard to find, but the lines of trees, the benches and the chairs are the best tools for original compositions.

3. Le Pont des Arts

Paris is the city of love!

Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolise their love. Most common place of Love padlocks are railings of the bridges.

Love padlocks can be found attached to the Pont des Arts, Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor and the Pont de l’Archevêché bridges in Paris.

The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the Seine River. It links the Institut de France and the central square of the palais du Louvre.

From this bridge, take the time to go along the Seine to Notre Dame de Paris.

4. Metro

Paris metro has become a symbol of the city, noted for its uniform architecture influenced by Art Nouveau.

Some stations are gorgeous as Saint-Germain-des-Prés with its “place des poètes”, Cité, Louvre…etc… All of them are ideal places for creative and street photography.

Why not create a thematic photobook about metros of the world?

5. Place du Tertre

Don’t be lazy, go north to the amazing village of Montmartre !

The Place du Tertre is a square in Paris’ XVIIIe arrondissement. Only a few streets away from the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur, it is the heart of the city’s elevated Montmartre quarter.

Discover “le Paris d’Amélie Poulain” with painters, accordion-players and cafés. Draughts-men and painters take possession of the square. They invite you to share an artistic and pleasant time.